I finally got around to purging out all of the ximian, gnome, and helix files I have on woody, and attempting to reinstall Gnome after an apt-get update with only the following sources: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free I then did an apt-get upgrade -f and apt-get dist-upgrade Everything works fine (under KDE). My problem is that if I do apt-get install with either task-gnome-apps or task-gnome-desktop, it cannot find the new package. I get: Package task-gnome-apps has no available version, but exists in the database...blah blah blah. Suggestions on how I can reinstal Gnome will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, Glen Snyder